CANDLE TIME
Pre-service music
Barb Carroll
ANNUNCIATION/MAGNIFICAT
LITANY
Isaiah 40:3-5
Leader: Prepare the way of the Lord;
ALL: Make a path for our God in the desert.
Leader: Every valley shall be exalted;
ALL: Every mountain and hill be laid low.
Leader: The crooked shall be made straight;
ALL: Rough places shall become plain.
Leader: The glory of the Lord shall be revealed;
ALL: All people shall see it together.
Leader: This is the promise of the Lord;
ALL: God’s promise shall be fulfilled.
SCRIPTURE
Luke 1:67-79
Zechariah’s Song
He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us. Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors, and has remembered his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
CAROL
“All Earth is Hopeful” (words projected) ELW # 266
DEVOTION
OFFERING OF MUSIC
“In the Bleak Midwinter” (Harold Darke)
Penny Meier, Tim Graf
PRAYER
BLESSING
“Away in a Manger”
Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask Thee to stay
close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
and fit us for heaven, to live with Thee there.
Attributed to John T. McFarland